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The world’s biggest outbound investment drive
Belt & Road joins the global dots
Fast growth – with a central role for Kazakhstan
How China is extending its economic reach
Belt & Road opportunities for dynamic businesses
One Belt, One Road: silk routes reimagined for modern China
May 2018
With US$1 trillion already allocated in planned investments, ranging from ports to high-speed railways and gas pipelines, Belt & Road is arguably the largest overseas investment drive ever launched by a single country.
European rail linkTime it takes the freight train to journey from Yiwu on China’s east coast to Barking in East London, via Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia and Europe.
Belt & Road was born when China’s President Xi Jinping visited
Kazakhstan. He said: “A 1,700km border, more than 2,000 years of exchanges and broad common interests, bind us together and open up broad prospects for the development of relations between our countries.”
Some 1,500 delegates from
130 countries, including 29 heads of state and/or government, attended a two-day summit, the Belt & Road Forum for International Cooperation, in Beijing, China. Prominent among them was President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.
Yiwu
FuzhouHanoi
London
Venice
Gwadar
Hambantota
Kolkata
Nairobi
Kashgar
Moscow
IstanbulDushanbe
US$1,000,000,000
2013
19 days
2017
Asian rail linkChina is the main investor in a 418km rail line from northern Laos to the capital, Vientiane. The track will eventually connect eight Asian countries.
US$6bn
Sri Lanka’s deep waterChina has bought a 99-year lease on the deep-water port of Hambantota on Sri Lanka’s south coast, close to busy shipping lanes for US$1.1 billion.
99 years
The China-Pakistan economic corridorA deepwater port at Gwadar, Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea will be linked by new roads and rail to western China’s Xinjiang region, creating a shortcut for trade with Europe. The port is part of US$46 billion China says it is spending on infrastructure and power plants in the China-Pakistan economic corridor.
US$46bn
Transportation/logistics Technology expertise
Engineering services Construction/labour
Outbound capital projects and infrastructure
Outbound financing
Better global trade through improved infrastructureEquipment export
Islamabad
Jakarta
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One belt: a series of overland routes from China to Europe, encompassing a host of trade and infrastructure projects.
Other routes: are being developed, such as the China-Pakistan economic corridor.
One road: somewhat confusingly, ‘road’ relates to a network of shipping lanes and port developments thoughout Asia, the Pacific and Europe.
